CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 621 
from every copse in the partially wooded district. (Brooks.) Found 
only at Cariboo Crossing, lat. 60°, B.C., where I_heard four males 
singing and secured three of them, June 27th and 28th, 1899. They 
were in comparatively open willow and spruce swamps. (Bzshop.) 
BREEDING Notes.—The birds made their first appearance on 
the 22nd of May at Carpenter mountain, Cariboo, B.C., and were 
common the same day. From that day I heard their song in 
almost every clump of trees. A great number drew off to the 
northward, but a good many remained. They generally frequented 
the clumps of aspen trees and Norway pines, where the ground 
was covered with a thick growth of dry fine grass. As I saw no 
female nor evidence of nesting I gave the birds three weeks and 
started out to look for their nests on the 15th June. Luckily I 
soon found a female off her nest and after an hour’s watching, 
during which time I suffered torments from the mosquitoes, she at 
last dropped down to her nest. On walking up she fluttered out, 
and flew off some distance, returning shortly with two others of 
the same species, when I put her off and shot her. A hundred 
yards further on I came across another female, probably one of the 
two that returned with the first one. I took up a good position 
and waited twenty minutes, when she darted down to the ground 
and disappeared, I went up and was just going to kill her with my 
little .38 caliber collecting pistol as she fluttered off, when out of 
the tail of my eve I saw the nest contained newly hatched young; 
I found another nest the same day by carefully quartering a likely 
piece of ground, and found several the next week with young also. ° 
The nests were always on the ground, sometimes at the foot of a 
small service-berry bush or twig. They were all arched over by 
the dry fine grass of the preceding year; this year’s growth having 
just well commenced. The nest is small and loosely constructed, 
being quite flat; it is composed outwardly of a few leaves, a little 
moss and a good deal of fine grass, lined only with the latter ma- 
terial. The nest was situated on the ground in, and arched over 
with dry grass, and no bush or twigs were near. (j/. Parker Norris, 
Jr., in The Auk, Vol, XIX, 88.) 
